Setting the Northern Border

MAP 9

Metullah Metullah

Banias Banias

Kuneitra Kuneitra

Safed Safed

Nahariya Nahariya

Acre Acre

Haifa Haifa

Tiberias Tiberias

M E D I T E R R A N E A N

S E A

L E B A N O N

S Y R I A

Sea of

Galilee

L E G E N D

Sykes-Picot line, 1916

French-British agreement, 1920

Border of 1923

Modern Israel

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20 km

12 mi

North at top. Lines are the author’s drawing of the historical agreements and are approximate.

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HISTORICAL MAPS

MAP 9 Setting the Northern Border

1916 to 1923, with the border of modern Israel for reference

In May 1916, France and Great Britain signed the Sykes-Picot Agreement, in which the claims of both sides to the Levant were set down, determining areas of administration and influence.

Until 1923, the sides were involved in hard bargaining, with the British insisting on control “from Dan to Beer Sheba” and control of its main water sources, the Jordan River and Sea of Galilee.

KEY DATES

May 1916 France and Great Britain sign the Sykes-Picot Agreement. The red line marks the Sykes-Picot line.

The green line marks the French-British agreement of 1920.

The purple line marks the border of 1923, reached after hard bargaining over the Jordan River and the Sea of Galilee.

Reading the map The blue line is the border of modern Israel, for reference. Where lines run together, the colors are drawn one over another.

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